All eyes on Yahoo! this week as they release their most important earnings data in the company’s history April 22nd. Google, Microsoft and Alibaba Group will be watching closely to see if they can deliver the numbers they reaffirmed with analysts. We will also be looking for signs of traction from tweaks to its advertising [...]

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My April 1st posting, Google Slowing?, detailed interpretations of recent Comscore data that showed that the almighty Google may actually be losing strength.
However, Google just released their Q1-08 earnings and hit the ball out of the park! Check out these numbers:
- Q1-08 earnings of US$1.31 billion or $4.12 per share versus US$1 billion or $3.18 [...]

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Tencent (0700.HK), China’s leading provider of Internet and mobile / telecommunications value-added services, is now the official and exclusive Internet sponsor of the 2010 World Expo.
Why is this significant?
- The World Expo has a 150 year history.
- The next World Expo will be held in Shanghai May 1-Oct 31, 2010 and is expecting over 70 [...]

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Pacific Epoch, a boutique research house focused on China technology, media, and telecom investment news, announced that Tejari.com is expanding in China.
Tejari.com is a B2B online trade marketplace, much like Alibaba.com and GlobalSources.com, but with a slant towards the Middle East, where it is based. Tejari boasts 150,000 members from the Middle East and [...]

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Google recently introduced a secondary search function this month which is getting mixed reviews.

The upside for Google is:
1. Increased traffic by retaining user’s for additional searches.
2. Increased revenues/profits from added pay-per-click opportunities from Adwords.
For Google user’s, they can enjoy the accuracy of Google’s search technology at a secondary level which should provide increased accuracy versus [...]

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China continues to grow at jaw dropping levels across many different industries and the most recent mobile phone, internet and e-commerce data does not fail to impress.
According to consulting and research firm, BDA, China has surpassed the United States as the world’s largest internet population with over 216 million users. Based upon current growth trends, [...]

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Keep your eyes on the upcoming earnings release from Hong Kong listed Alibaba.com as this is the company’s first ever announcement and should provide insight into sales trends and the possible mergers & acquisitions they keep making reference to.
Alibaba.com’s investor relations site.
Alibaba to announce 2007 Full Year Financial Results
Date: 18 March 2008 (Tuesday)
Time: After the [...]

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Over the past few years there have been a number of improvements in how consumer websites work. No doubt everyone has heard the buzzwords, “Mash-ups”, “Web 2.0” and “The People Internet” many times over the past years. Below is an attempt to define the buzzwords into three basic categories:
New Technologies
Sites are utilizing new technologies such [...]

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